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NRP keeping an electronic eye out for poachers
January 31, 2010
Someday in the not too distant future (they don't want to spoil the surprise), Natural Resources Police officers will be able to flip a switch and watch Chesapeake Bay boat traffic from Charm City to the mouth of the Potomac River, day or night.
Why do I bring this up in an outdoors column? Because the multimillion-dollar network of cameras and radar designed to protect vital sites, such as the Port of Baltimore, the Bay Bridge and the LNG docks and nuclear power plant at Calvert Cliffs, will have a second use: to police fishing, crabbing and oystering activity.
Maryland Law Enforcement Information Network is new tool to protect natural resources
aquaculture areas. They will be able to document someone casting a net out of season or power dredging after midnight.
http://articles.baltimoresun.com/2010-01-31/sports/bal-sp.thomson31jan31_1_nrp-tilghman-island-poachers |
Oyster War casualties
We hear much about local watermen's opposition to regulations intended to preserve and regulate Maryland's wild oyster harvest. It is ironic that 130 years after the start of the first oyster wars, watermen are still fighting over the fate of the oyster, perhaps for the last time.
Maryland's wild oyster population has dropped to less than 1 percent of historic levels. Over 5,000 watermen harvested oysters a century ago, fewer than 500 harvest oysters today. Before World War I, 600 to 800 skipjacks dredged for oysters. Less than two dozen skipjacks survive intact today and only five or six of those survivors now dredge for oysters. Where 2,000,000 bushels of oysters was once an average yearly catch, wild oyster harvests are now less than 100,000 bushels per season and the yield continues to drop each year. Oyster laws have changed over the years, reducing conservation efforts in favor of political expediency and the oyster population continues to decline.
http://www.stardem.com/opinion/article_eedc3f99-d991-5294-a797-469c3c837d1f.html
http://www.stardem.com/search/?t=article&q=oysters
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Dec 30, 2009
Va. could face stiffer rules in bay cleanup|Story| Hampton Roads Daily Press
The Associated Press
Chesapeake Bay Foundation, Barack Obama, Heads of State, Water Pollution, National Government New proposal to clean up Chesapeake Bay tougher than EPA plan
Dec 31, 2009
|Story| Hampton Roads Daily Press
The Associated Press
Chesapeake Bay Foundation, University of Maryland, Water Pollution, Bodies of Water, National Government Chesapeake Bay advocates send Obama administration tough restoration plan, say action needed
Associated Press Writer
Chesapeake Bay Foundation, University of Maryland, Barack Obama, Water Pollution, Bodies of Water Bay advocates to make new restoration proposal
Dec 29, 2009
|Story| Associated Press
The Associated Press
Chesapeake Bay advocates plan to release a new bay restoration proposal Wednesday in Annapolis. Former Maryland state Sen. Gerald Winegrad said the proposal will be given to Obama administration officials developing a bay restoration strategy in response...
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ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) — A coalition of former governors, congressmen, scientists and others sent the Obama Administration their proposed Chesapeake Bay restoration strategy, a plan much tougher than the one being developed by the U.S. Environmental..
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BALTIMORE — The Environmental Protection Agency said Tuesday that the Chesapeake Bay watershed states and Washington, D.C., could face stiffer pollution reduction requirements and other consequences for not meeting bay restoration goals. EPA Mid-...
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